
Lalgarh: Thirty eight-year old Niyati Mahato was back canvassing for votes in Lalgarh, 18 years after she lost a Panchayat poll on a Congress ticket. This time round, she appealed for her husband Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), the same group that led the tribals' resistance with Maoist support in Lalgarh two years. Mahato, the man accused in the Gyaneswari train sabotage and is...

07:53 AM, May 09, 2011

Naxals have launched three major strikes in less than two months in which many security personnel and civilians have been killed. Lalgarh in West Bengal has been one of the laboratories of Naxals where they have forced the Government to backtrack. The agitation against the Government is Lalgarh is being led by Naxal-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), whose leader Chhatradhar Mahato was arrested on September 26, 2009. Security ...

09:46 PM, May 29, 2010

He was arrested in a case relating to ransacking of a police camp. ...

02:04 PM, Nov 05, 2009

44-year-old Mahato is not a criminal, agitators wrote on train coaches. ...

03:48 AM, Oct 28, 2009

Govt threatened action against some intellectuals for supporting Naxals. ...

03:28 PM, Oct 07, 2009

PCAPA has virtual control over 42 villages in Lalgarh. ...

03:30 PM, Jun 24, 2009